Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

I have no idea what causes boring's problem but when I first got my old Abit NF7 motherboard the onboard sound played at half speed (maybe it was double, I forget). I worried that the entire motherboard was running at the wrong bus speed, which would mean serious problems, but when I put in my old soundcard and used that (which I was going to do anyway) it sounded fine and I didn't have any other trouble with it.

Now I have another Abit motherboard, a UL8, and I can't hibernate the PC because when I reactivate it all sound through either soundcard plays at double speed. I know it's double because the last.fm plugin is always about to kick in (which it does halfway through the playing time) when it runs out of track and never submits.

So, I can't help, but you're not the only one.

i'm buying that gadget i mentioned upthread BTW. most geeky thing i've done ever. srsly.

The Linksys NSLU2 certainly looks interesting. I've been thinking of building myself some kind of Linux-based file server/storage box to sit on my home network for what feels like forever now, but something along those lines could be a much simpler solution. It seems a downside that it only has 2 USB slots though.

"If you are hearing internet radio too fast I suggest you leave it running, wait for the lottery results and get $$$."

great idea. Cheers.

the NSLU2 is MAGIC! you need to update the firmware so you can use FAT32 (and NTFS if so minded) and in leopard it just pops up in the sidebar as a shared machine so i guess it advertises the SMBness.

i plugged in my media box and i was able to play avi files directly over the LAN in VLC, and i even had a separate iTunes library backed up on there, so switched iTunes to using that library and it didn't blink.

i am hooked. next trick is to get myself a domain name, get it running LAMP or direct connect or summink l33t like that.

krakow, i bet you could use a hub off it with custom firmware. I have my iTunes library on my NSLU2

I do desperately need more space, and external HDDs just aren't cutting it for me.

Anyone have any tips on ways to improve streaming video? It's very choppy. I have a mac...I suspect that it may have something to do with my upload speed being too low (~200kbps); is there a way to increase that, or is the answer: get faster internet?

Will connecting to the wall with a wire, instead of using wireless, help?

Try pausing yr player for a while, let the streaming come in a bit, then start it. There will be less 'stopping' therefore less irritating.

Yeah, the pause button doesn't seem to work. Stupid Silverlight.

Oh, it's 'live' video.

Anyone know why my Word program has started randomly replacing letters with apostrophes? I type a word like "because" and Word "auto-corrects" it to "bec'use". It's not happening in a consistent way - it just randomly replaces letters.

I'm trying to fill in a job app and it looks perfectly fine in 'normal' mode, but in 'page layout' I lose some of the pages. Any reformatting tips? There aren't any page/section breaks to delete.

OK, the entire thing was formatted as a table, even when it looks like free text. Case closed.

Maria, that sounds bizarre.

Maria, turn off the Autocorrect (from Tools| Autocorrect Options | Replace text as you type in Word 2003). You can also see the entire list of replacements that autocorrect will use in that same dialog and can delete them. If the weird stuff isn't in there, I'd probably remove and reinstall Word (or all of Office).

Thanks, Jaq. The strange corrections are not in autocorrect. I'll try reinstalling once I find my disk.

That was me, not him.

Dunno if I have a hardware problem on my laptop. When I bought the laptop secondhand, the dvd drive was knacked, so I replaced it with a new drive. Was working ok for a few weeks, burning discs, playing cds/dvds etc but now it won't read or play anything. When I boot up there's a clicking sound from it as if it's looking for a disc.

Using XP, device manager says that it is working properly, but clearly it isn't. Any ideas?

XP doesn't know shit. Your drive is rooted.

Can you boot from a boot CD? This should tell you if XP is borked.

Dunno, will give it a go this evening, don't have the laptop to hand at the mo.

XP tells you a device works if it knows the device is there. Utterly useless feedback. It's like a mechanic seeing your car and saying 'I can see your car, therefore it works'

having posted this really bizarre problem importing an audio track from CD on two different macs on the "i hate apple" thread, i realised i should probably have posted it here. but i didn't. anyway: if anyone's got any ideas, fire away.

Is there an external switch for wireless on the ThinkPad (R52)? I usually keep my wireless radio off. For some reason, the option to turn it on no longer appears. I tried using Fn+F5, but I get a message about the resource dll being missing, but then in the advanced settings for my wireless connection, it appears that my wireless device is working properly.

bump

lol get a mac

yeah! you can take photos of yrself from a little camera atop the screen!!!!!!!!!!!

wireless works

ok so we have a wireless router with a mac wired to it and my laptop connected wirelssly. when i download large pages (ie: wdyll by the middle of a month kind of size) the wireless connection drops out and i have to go upstairs and reset the router. the internet connection for the mac is not affect at all so I know its just a wireless prob. how do i fix it?

Is it a Linksys?

netgear

Have you tried a wired connection?

oops i misread.

Do you lose the ability to see the name of the wlan?

yes. it disappears off the radar altogether.

tried newer firmware?

no. im kind of scared to because i cant remember how i set it up. i know its set up on the mac. like i cant get an internet connection on the laptop if the mac isnt on. (and weirdly, the xbox can connect when my laptop isnt on?).

anyway, point is if i screw it up were all screwed

The IT guy in me says that you have a bad router. There was a run of Netgear wireless routers from like 2-3 years ago where the wireless bit had massive issues. It's not a blue-box Netgear, is it?

no. but i did buy it about 2 years ago and my googling on the subject seems to suggest this very thing. stupid netgear.

If it keeps up, I think I have a spare 802.11b WAP that I could send you for nothin.

woah, really?? that would be great!

(this has actually been happening since we got the router, the difference now is that i have to walk up stairs to reset it so im suddenly inspired to fix the problem)

Let me look in my store of crap. I left a WAP on the street last week because I didn't need it, but I tend to hoard computer crap.

cool. thanks!

do the firmware update, DO IT.111

ill TRY

can someone recommend an NAS RAID storage device? I talked with someone about the Yellow Machine but it's not being manufactured anymore. This is for a studio that needs some kind of file management solution quickly. At least 1TB of storage.

I hear very good things about the Drobo. RAID without the hassle - just plug it in and it's seen as a single disk. Four bays that you can slot any standard HDs into, mixing and matching sizes if you like. Hot-swap new ones in when drives become full or fail. Up to 16TB theoretical maximum (4TB is the max in each bay).

Oh, and DroboShare makes it networkable.